Home Page - 2002-04-07

Dear folks, the ellipses (three dots) at the end of the 'Launching now' title is
just to caution you and to ridicule myself, in not being able to do a good job of this
launching, to my fullest satisfaction. To my own surprise, I'm too busy with many
practical things. Folks, this is also my straight faced plea to you all, for any help
you can offer. Right now it is not money, but interactions and research work. You know
the site, please see where you can fit (if need be create a need)!

Now that the confession is made, I owe to myself and to you all, to see to that, that
this company succeeds, Come What May. Though it is inherently ridiculous to
dream something without much substance (what is that?), I'm very sure that we can
offer something in the form of openness, simplicity and innovation. We will. All said,
and caution apart, there is something to jubilate about. This is April, and we are
already afoot as planned, we are 'Launching' as planned, and we are making
progress as planned, all this well within the broad timetable we started with.
There is place for improvements, but there is also lot to pat our backs about.

I find that it is extremely hard to fill up a simple recordable CD (which just costs
under Rs.20/-) with all the corporate source code (zipped), even for a full month.
This prompted me to think about the needlessness of putting ourselves against the
human-un-readable format of these version control systems. I equally abhor the
open-source CVS and its proprietary and costly commercial counterparts. Because,
they all are binary formats, with not much persuasive need in these modern times.